Improvement in horse-rakes



e. L. QHEIDLER.

Horse Rake.

N0, 56 222. Patented luly 10, 1866.

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. UNITED STATES PATENT "OFFICE,

GEORGE L. HEIDLER, OF YORK, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-RAKES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 56,222, dated July 10, 1866.

ent teeth attached to the head in front of the carriage-axle with the pressure-board to guide and press the teeth to the ground.

Figure 1 represents a top view of the machine; Fig. 2, an end View; Fig. 3, a section of pressure-board.

, A represents the drivers seat; 13, the carriage-axle; O, the shafts; D, the lever by which the teeth E are raised and lowered.

The teeth E are attached to ferrules on a head in front of the axle B.

At the back of the axle I have a pressureboard, H, formed of a frame extending across the machine the whole width, having rods J at equal distances apart, between which the teeth rest, and are pressed to the ground by the operation of the lever D.

K are straight cleaners attached to a bar on the back end of the shafts G.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The arrangement of the independent teeth attached to the head in front of the axle and the pressure-board to guide and press the teeth to the ground, constructed and operating as herein described.

GEORGE L. HEIDLER.

Witnesses:

J. FRANKLIN REIGART, JOHN S. HOLLINGSHEAD. 

